I want to archive a directory structure (FYI: checked out from Subversion) where a hidden directory ".svn" appears at every level of the directory structure BUT I DO NOT want this directory (or its contents) to appear in the archive file..

To state it another way, for clarity, I want to archive all files and directories in a specified directory and ignore directories (and contained files) named ".svn"

rsync is an excellent tool and has well document man pages. I know from experience that it has the option to ignore specific directories. There are also plenty of tutorial online on how to use it. In addition there is a graphical front-end by I recommend to use the command line.

The above command copies (and compresses) the contents of /home/me/src/ to the /home/me/backup/20081013 direcory, the "-C" option ignores the ".svn" directories (including other common build generated files/directories); I used the "--exclude=dbdata/" option to exclude non-source datafiles.

Hi veedar,

Unfortunately the synaptic package manager GUI on my ubuntu 8.04 installation will not allow me to upgrade my "tar 1.19-3" package to 1.20, presumably becuase it has not been released or supported yet by unbuntu.

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